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 Andrea Powell
Andrea Powell has been the Executive Director for Publishing at CABI since 2005, having first joined the not-for-profit organization as a Marketing Executive in the early 1990s. She is responsible for leading CABI's successful publishing business, which includes secondary databases, books, and multimedia reference works. CABI's flagship product is the CAB Abstracts database, covering the world's literature in agriculture, environment, and related disciplines. Under Andrea's direction, CABI has streamlined and refocused its publishing operations, moving out of primary journal publishing and investing instead in innovative new technologies and online delivery platforms.
Andrea is a former chair of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and is a member of the Copyright Clearance Center's Publisher Advisory Group. She is a regular speaker at STM, SSP, and ALPSP events.
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 Carol Anne Meyer
Carol Anne Meyer is responsible for marketing and business development at CrossRef. An information industry professional with 25 years of experience in publishing and product development, she has consulted with participants in the scholarly publishing community on marketing, market research, product development, and production issues. Carol has held strategic product management positions at Aries Systems, Northern Light Technology, and SilverPlatter. She also served as the Director of New Media for Little, Brown's professional division, which included product development for legal and medical markets and Publisher of the journals program at ACM, and was instrumental in creating the database production systems that now support ACM's Digital Library. Early in her career, Carol was involved with newsletter and magazine publishing for a trade association and with the dawn of the electronic publishing era at Random House Software. |
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 Don McClain
Don McClain joined Allen Press in 2008 as Director of Academic Sales, conducting sales activities for the company in the scholarly journal publishing market. He has worked in the printing industry for nearly 30 years, specializing in scientific, technical, and medical journals. He was formerly with Cadmus Professional Communications. Don received degrees in English, American Literature, and Linguistics from Eastern Michigan University. |
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 Eva Amsen
Eva Amsen is an avid science blogger, writing predominantly about the overlap of science and culture but also regularly discussing science outreach or communication between scientists. Her blogging activities, at both easternblot.net and on Nature Network, have led to other opportunities in science communication: Eva co-organizes the unconference event SciBarCamp and Nature Network pub nights in Toronto, and she is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Hypothesis. She has also written on science in theater and pop culture for The Scientist and CRAM Science, and wrote "Facts Behind the Fiction" pieces for the fourth season of the TV show "ReGenesis."
Eva received her PhD from the University of Toronto, researching cellular aspects of pigmentation in Dr. Daniela Rotin's laboratory. She is currently involved in student support and outreach in the Human Biology department at the University of Toronto and is a member of the Canadian Science Writers' Association. |
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 Jason Roberts
Jason Roberts began work in the publishing field at Blackwell Science in Oxford, UK, in the subscription services department after earning a doctorate in Geography from Loughborough University. Moving to Blackwell's US office, he switched to the editorial team, becoming Publishing Manager and then Senior Editor of US-based medical journals, handling budgets, business plans, and society/editor relations with the publisher. In 2004 he left Blackwell to become the Managing Editor for Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain. Later that year he also founded the editorial office of a new-launch periodical: The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Jason is the founding president of the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors. He serves in an advisory capacity on editorial office operations and speaks periodically on the issues of publication ethics, management of the peer review process, and editorial office best practices. |
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 Mary Anne Baynes
Mary Anne Baynes is Director of Sales and Support at American Journal Experts. Her responsibilities include the development of processes and procedures to help AJE partner and create mutually beneficial relationships with publishers, journals, and organizations.
Mary Anne is a graduate of James Madison University with a degree in Mass Communications. |
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 Michael Clarke
Michael Clarke is the Director of Business and Product Development at the American Medical Association where he works on projects related to the AMA's publishing activities. Prior to his current position, he was Senior Managing Editor at the American Academy of Pediatrics and Executive Editor of the journal Pediatrics. From 1999 - 2002 Michael was Senior Production Editor at the University of Chicago Press. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado and a master's degree from the University of Chicago. |
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 Moshe Pritsker
Moshe Pritsker is the co-founder and CEO of JoVE, the first online video-journal for biological research. He holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, a MSc in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a BSc in Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Results of his research on stem cells, genomics, bioinformatics, and HIV were published in leading scientific journals (PNAS, JBC, Genome Research, and Biochemistry) and patent applications. Prior to co-founding JoVE, Dr. Pritsker was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital. |
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 Philip E. Bourne
Philip E. Bourne is a Professor in theDepartment of Pharmacology and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego Associate Director of the Protein Data Bank and an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute. He is a Past President of theInternational Society for Computational Biology and an elected fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal PLoS Computational Biology and on the Editorial Board of IEEE Trends in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He is a long-standing member of the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and Genome Canada, a past member of the US National Committee for Crystallography, and past chairman of both the International Union of Crystallography Computing Commission and the American Crystallography Association Computing Committee.
Philip's professional interests focus on relevant biological and educational outcomes derived from computation and scholarly communication and the free dissemination of science through new models of publishing. He holds degrees in chemistry from The Flinders University in South Australia. |
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 Tony Crouch
Tony Crouch has been involved in the world of publishing and print for over 40 years, with experience in the private sector, government, and university press publishing. For the past 21 years he has been Director of Design & Production at the University of California Press. Tony has lectured widely on various aspects of the design, production, and manufacturing process. The UC Press is active in digital publishing and very involved in being a "green" publishing house, featuring sustainable and environmentally responsible materials in their books. |
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 Vivian A. Gray
Vivian Gray has spent the last 34 years involved in all aspects of dissolution testing, a quality control tool, critical in measuring the performance of a drug product that has become increasingly important in the last 10 years. She was with the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) for 23 years as a chemist, as supervisor of method development, and as liaison to the USP Biopharmaceutics Expert Committee. In 1997 Vivian joined the DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company as the Head of the Analytical R & D Dissolution Group. She now serves on the USP Biopharmaceutics and Reference Standards Expert Committees and is chair of the USP Advisory Panel on Calibration Issues.
In 2002 Vivian began a consulting firm, V. A. Gray Consulting, Inc., in dissolution testing and related areas. She is also Managing Director of the publication Dissolution Technologies, a quarterly, international peer-reviewed journal dealing specifically with dissolution testing issues. She recently co-authored a book titled Handbook of Dissolution Testing, Third Edition.
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 Will Fisher
Will is the Director of Web Content Management for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and is responsible for leading the planning and implementation of Web content for ASHA's websites, including the development and management of the team's Web projects.
He has over 15 years of Web experience. Before coming to ASHA, he was the Manager of Electronic Operations at a B2B publishing company. He managed operations for over 20 B2B websites and provided oversight for all electronic newsletter and magazine publishing and distribution. Before that, he worked at the World Bank, producing various knowledge management CD-ROMs. |
